The preciosity of the court goes hand in hand with the atrocities of the outside world, and literary creation took on the same schizophrenic precariousness attempting to wall off the violence of the outside world.

Thus Poliziano espoused the ideal of the unity of learning based upon comprehensive knowledge of the classical tradition, but in practice this emerged as philological expertise leaning toward preciosity, an exclusive and elitist form of "Alexandrian" erudition that was made possible by his position as an in-house Medici intellectual.

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